Medha Patkar: Green leader and Narmada Bachao Andolan famed Medha Patkar has warned the politicians of all hue not to run after multinational companies (MNCs) for the investments. It will ruin the
There has been too much emphasis on cereal crops - rice and wheat. Although getting to the top of any field is not easy, Punjab has achieved it. It produced 136.78 lakh tonnes of what and 73.30 lakh
Before too long, the Salween plunder will fade from memoryjust like Thailand's once majestic forest cover. The loggers and their influential pals in the departments, the ministries, in parliament
The population of Seoul declined for the fifth straight year in 1997 and the number of males is steadily outnumbering females, a demographic tally showed yesterday. The city's analysis of registered
Opponents of the Kaeng Sua Ten dam demanded an explanation of the irregular possession of land near the project site in Song district yesterday Taeng Intha, a protest leader, said about 730 rai in
The coypu farming business in Thailand has proved to be a get-rich-quick scam for most companies involved and now the majority are out of business. Farmers have been left with thousands of
The Delhi Water Board has been notified. Senior IAS officer Baleshwar Rai will take over as the chief executive officer of the newly-constituted board. And chief minister Sahib Singh Verma will be
Rs 31,000-crore Uri hydroelectric power project in Jammu and Kashmir generated 2,100 million units of power by March 31 last, way above the targeted 1,500 million units fixed for the year 1997-98.
The Union minister for urban development, Mr Ram Jethmalani, is all set to review the Coastal Regulation Zone Act, that bars any construction within 500 metres of sea waters, despite
The man-made brush fires that are raging again in Indonesia are symptomatic of a wider regional peril: South-East Asia's rapid development is racking up an alarming toll in environmental
